Hamlet's Soliloquy... Activity 3

Alicia Ramirez

Johna Emerick
Judith Botello

...Activity 3...

1. What Prior experiences have you had reading plays?

• Plays are always difficult to understand. Everyone interprets them differently and it affects everyone in a different way. I've read Shakespeare's play " Romeo and Juliet" before and it was so complex and old fashioned that the teacher had to go over it line by line and explain what was trying to be said. It's surprising how well messages are hidden in such complex writing.

2. What did you notice about the page format and annotations?

• The format was like a play. It would say exactly what had to be done in each scene. The only difficult part, was having to figure out what each thing meant.

3. What did you notice about the text's structure?

• Even though "Romeo and Juliet" was written as a play. It sounded as if it was meant to be a poem. I guess that's what made it sound a little more romantic and less weird.